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'''Telecommunications in Dominica''' comprises telephone, radio, television and internet services. The primary regulatory authority is the National Telecommunication Regulatory Commission<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.ntrcdom.org/index.php/en/about-us| title = ''National Telecommunication Regulatory Commission'', retrieved 27 May 2019 }}</ref> which regulates all related industries to comply with The Telecommunications Act 8 of 2000.

==Telephony==
Calls from Dominica to the US, Canada, and other NANP Caribbean nations, are dialed as 1 + NANP area code + 7-digit number. Calls from Dominica to non-NANP countries are dialed as 011 + country code + phone number with local area code.

;Telephone system:
*Domestic: fully automatic network
*International: [[microwave]] radio relay and [[Super high frequency|SHF]] [[radiotelephone]] links to [[Martinique]] and [[Guadeloupe]]; [[VHF]] and [[Ultra high frequency|UHF]] radiotelephone links to [[Saint Lucia]]

;Number formatting:
*[[Telephone code]]: 767
*[[North American Numbering Plan#Dialing procedures|Number Format]]: nxx-xxxx
*[[Country calling code|Country Code]]: [[Area code 767|+1767]]
*[[International Call Prefix]]: 011 (outside NANP)

;[[Mobile cellular]] service providers:
*[[Digicel]]
*[[LIME (Cable & Wireless)|FLOW]]

==Internet==
;[[Internet Service Provider]]s (ISPs):
*Cable & Wireless Dominica Ltd (DSL)
*Digicel Play (Cable & FTTP)
*Marpin Telecoms (Cable)

;[[Internet code]]: .dm

==Radio==
Dominica's radio stations include the government-owned [[DBS Radio]], as well as privately owned competitors [[Kairi FM]] and [[Q95 (Dominica)|Q95]]; a religious service called [[Voice of Life]] also operates there.<ref name=morse>{{cite book |editor1-last=Morse |editor1-first=Kimberly J. |title=The Americas: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society |date=2022 |publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]] |isbn=978-1-440-85239-8 |page=354 |chapter-url=https://google.com/books/edition/The_Americas/JRjOEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=television+in+%22Dominica%22&pg=PA354&printsec=frontcover |access-date=2024-10-04 |chapter=Dominica: Media |chapter-url-access=limited |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> DBS was founded in 1971 as Radio Dominica (supplanting material provided by [[Grenada]]'s Windward Islands Broadcasting Service, WIBS),<ref>{{cite book |last1=Honychurch |first1=Lennox |author1-link=Lennox Honychurch |title=The Dominica Story |chapter= Development and Welfare: General Services |page=194 |date=1995 |publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan Education]] |isbn=0-333-62776-8 |edition=2nd}}</ref> while Voice of Life was established in 1974 by two North American missionaries and began transmissions in 1976.<ref name=morse/> In 1997, the island had 46,000 radio receivers.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}{{update needed|date=October 2024}}

==Television==
During the 1970s, relay services from [[Barbados]]' [[Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation]] (CBC) represented the earliest attempts to bring television to Dominica; these were also provided to [[Saint Lucia]] and [[Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lent |first1=John A. |title=Third World Mass Media and Their Search for Modernity: The Case of Commonwealth Caribbean, 1717-1976 |date=1977 |publisher=[[Bucknell University Press]] |location=[[Lewisburg, Pennsylvania]] |isbn=0-8387-1896-5 |page=82 |url=https://google.com/books/edition/Third_World_Mass_Media_and_Their_Search/Hv25dy0K1DAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=television+in+%22Dominica%22/CBC&pg=PA82&printsec=frontcover |access-date=2024-10-04 |chapter=The Awakening (1938-44) and After: Radio, Television, Film |url-access=limited |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> The experiment ceased after [[Hurricane David]] devastated the country in 1979; at the time, transmission was served from the [[Morne Bruce]] locality.<ref name=hewlett>{{cite book |last1=Quinlan |first1=Marsha B. |last2=Hansen |first2=Jenna R. |editor1-last=Hewlett |editor1-first=Bonnie Lynn |title=Adolescent Identity: Evolutionary, Cultural and Developmental Perspectives |date=2013 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=978-0-415-89012-0 |page=250 |url=https://google.com/books/edition/Adolescent_Identity/84afxB7dN4UC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Marpin+%22Dominica%22&pg=PA250&printsec=frontcover |access-date=2024-10-04 |chapter=Introduction of Television and Dominica Youth: Modernization and Media in Bwa Mawego |url-access=limited |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>

In lieu of a national television broadcast service,<ref name=morse/><ref name=hewlett/> Dominica received cable service through the Marpin company in 1983.<ref>{{free access}} {{cite book |last1=Favaro |first1=Edgardo |last2=Winter |first2=Bryan |editor1-last=Favaro |editor1-first=Edgardo |title=Small States, Smart Solutions: Improving Connectivity and Increasing the Effectiveness of Public Services |date=2008 |publisher=[[World Bank]] Publications |isbn=978-0-8213-7461-0 |page=136 |url=https://google.com/books/edition/Small_States_Smart_Solutions/Wz1jf5-mOgAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Marpin+Dominica,+1983&pg=PA136&printsec=frontcover |access-date=2024-10-04 |chapter=Telecommunications Regulation in the Eastern Caribbean: The Spark for Change: The Formation of ECTEL |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref><!-- Not recommended per WP's filters: <ref>{{cite book |last1=Abraham |first1=Ron |title=Monopoly Breaker |date=2010-03-30 |publisher=Author House |isbn=978-1-4685-0379-1 |page=44 |quote=...formerly Marpin TV Company Limited, [it] began cable television operations in Dominica in 1983. |via=[[Google Books]] Snippets}}</ref> --><!-- Listed as "Preview", but specific extract unreachable as of this edit [4/10/2024] --> By 2017, it was acquired by the local division of [[Flow (brand)|Flow]], whose name it was rebranded under.<ref>{{cite news |author=Staff |title=Cable & Wireless acquires Marpin 2K4 Ltd |url=https://dominicanewsonline.com/news/homepage/news/cable-wireless-acquires-marpin-2k4-ltd/ |access-date=2024-10-04 |work=Dominica News Online (DNO) |date=2017-05-12}}</ref>  As of the early 2020s, Flow mainly carried North American and British programming, and broadcast a weekday-morning programme entitled ''Good Morning Dominica''.<ref name=morse/> The country's other cable system, the later SAT Telecommunications, was similarly renamed [[Digicel Play]] in October 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dominicanewsonline.com/news/homepage/news/business/business-byte-sat-telecommunications-becomes-digicel-play/|title=BUSINESS BYTE: SAT Telecommunications becomes Digicel Play|work=Dominica News Online (DNO)}}</ref>{{better source needed|reason=Press release|date=October 2024}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sat.dm/ |title=SAT Telecommunications Ltd - Home |access-date=23 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130212201458/http://www.sat.dm/ |archive-date=12 February 2013}}</ref>

Dominica had 11,000 television sets in 2007.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}{{update needed|date=October 2024}}

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|https://ntrcdominica.dm/}}
* [https://www.ectel.int/legislation/dominica/ Dominica], E.C. Tel
* [https://www.submarinecablemap.com/country/dominica Dominica], SubmarineCableMap.com

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